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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little. What the public perceives as a vanishing may in fact be an escape into a better reality. In October 1984 Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, 53, one of the bright hopes of the Democratic Party, learned that he had a mild form of cancer. At first, he decided to plow ahead with his re-election campaign. Then he thought better of it. As a friend told him, "Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time on my business.' " Tsongas gave up his political career to spend his time with his family. He vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Poof! the Phenomenon of Public Vanishing | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...Reagan Administration's latest attempt to cut National in stitutes of Health, (NIH) funding was dealt a serious plow last week when the General Accounting Office (GAO), charged with overseeing federal expenditures, declared that the education violated...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Reagan's Science Funding Cuts Called Illegal By Federal Agency | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

...eyes, as the land itself. "It was a land of excesses--of blazing light and great weathers where a man stood exposed," Madson wrote about the grasslands as they were a century ago. "The wealth of the tall prairie was its undoing." Covetous men subdued it with the steel plow. Odd how history is now repeating itself. Wealth once again is the undoing of the heartland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Power of the Prairie | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...good drama; its narrative is frequently shapeless and clumsy as well as sanctimonious. The trouble is that many will mistake it for the truth. The film's verdict will most likely stand unchallenged; unless The Atlanta Child Murders draws ratings on the order of Roots, TV will not plow this ground again. "What frightens me," says Gail Epstein, who reported on the case for the Atlanta Constitution, "is that people across America will see the movie and think that this is what really happened." If so, it will be the Atlanta tragedy's saddest footnote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Witness for the Defense the Atlanta Child Murders | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

When five-term California Democratic Congressman Jerry Patterson lost his bid for re-election last November, he reviewed his options: find a Government job, return to law practice or start a new career. "Be a snow-plow operator in Tahoe," jokes Patterson, "or something like that." In the end, Patterson chose Washington. An influential former member of the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, he became a Washington-based attorney and lobbyist for a California law firm, at about double the annual $75,100 congressional salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Legislator to Lobbyist | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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